randomWalks

It's always nice to see preconcieved notions dashed by experience.

It reminds of what one antiwar protestor said in the 1960s, "Oh my god. Everything they told me was a lie!"

OK, we saved some windows, but at what cost? I don't mean just the ridiculous amount of police overtime -- which will run into millions of dollars -- I mean the cost to us as a people. The intimidation, the fear, the contempt shown to the Constitution. Where do we send that bill?

First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly, and Fourth Amendment
protections against unreasonable search and seizure, did not exist last week in Miami.

People were stopped and searched and arrested without cause. No one wants
to believe the police would do such things. It is more comforting to believe that in every case where the police used force or arrested a person, the protesters must have done something to deserve it. The alternative, after all, is too scary to imagine.

But it happened. We've heard story after story. Not isolated incidents, but repeated tales of misconduct.

The Miami Herald realizes that maybe the cops aren't always on the right side after repeated stories of misconduct come out.

originally posted by zagg